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50. All the Americas welcome with pride and enthusiasm the honour which this distinguished Assembly has just conferred on one of the American continent’s most i...

158. Owing to the unexpected delay of some hours in the arrival of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of my country, I have the honour to come to the rostrum at t...

55. El Salvador considers the honour paid to Mr. Emilio Arenales, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Guatemala and President of the General Assembly at its twenty-...

1. The election of the Foreign Minister of Guatemala to the high office of President of the General Assembly at its twenty-third session is eloquent testimony b...

136. Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you the warmest congratulations and best wishes of my Government and myself. We greet you as an outs...

59. Once again, a Latin American statesman has been elected President to our Assembly. The Government of the French Republic is glad of his election, as I am ha...

67. Mr. President, in speaking for the first time from this rostrum only a few days after your unanimous election to the Presidency of the twenty-third session ...

102. Mr. President, the delegation of Ghana is gratified to see you, a distinguished son of Guatemala, preside over the General Assembly at its twenty-third ses...

40. Mr. President, on behalf of the Greek delegation, I should like to express to you our pleasure at the fact that the General Assembly is meeting under your p...

1. It is a special pleasure for me to honour our President, on behalf of the delegation of the Republic of Guinea, on his election to the presidency of the twen...

43. It is with a very real sense of regional pride that I congratulate the President on his election to preside over the General Assembly at its twenty-third se...

1.Mr. President, allow me to extend to you, both on behalf of the Government of Haiti and on behalf of the delegation I have the honour of heading, our warmest ...

163. Before beginning my statement this afternoon, I wish, on behalf of my country, to register a strong protest against the discriminatory way in which the sec...

43. This generation of ours has the choice of two paths: peaceful coexistence or nuclear war—life or death. Many of the statements made in this general debate h...

129. Mr. President, allow me to take this opportunity to pay a tribute to you and to extend to you my delegation’s congratulations upon your election to this hi...

147. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, distinguished representatives, I am grateful to you for according me the high honour of addressing this great Assembl...

1. I should like to begin by expressing, on behalf of my delegation, our appreciation and admiration of Mr. Corneliu Manescu, who so ably discharged the duties ...

43. I should like first of all to congratulate Mr. Arenales on his election to the presidency of this Assembly. The Iranian delegation views his election as bot...

1. It gives me great pleasure to join the previous speakers in extending to Mr. Arenales, from this rostrum, our sincere congratulations on his election to the ...

71. Mr. President, Israel sincerely welcomes your election to the Presidency of this General Assembly. Your elevation to this office does honour to Guatemala an...